Keeping company with the tragic past

Gerald Harris’ editorial titled “Breaking family ties painful, but sometimes necessary” in The Christian Index, official publication of the Georgia Baptist Convention, is condescending toward Mimi Walker, co-pastor of Druid Hills Baptist Church, specifically, and...

Faith for a new generation

USA Today featured an article in late March on the way Millennials do faith and politics. I pulled it out, tucked it away and just read it again.The focus is on a Pew Research Center study showing that those born after 1980 — the first generation to come of age in the...

Return of the longwinded preacher

Yikes! Dr. Tom Long of Emory University’s Candler School of Theology said recent studies have shown that sermons are getting longer for the first time in decades.It is hard to imagine, given the truth of the adage: The mind can only comprehend what the backside...

Thanks, Velda

After checking into my third consecutive hotel on the last leg of an 1,150-mile run up and down I-75, my primary goal was to hit the bed as soon as possible. Five days of talking, listening and driving had exhausted me.There was no mint nor chocolate on the pillow, as...

Subscription sales and the power of suggestion

A mission to sell more news journals took me from Tennessee into Kentucky where the presence of KFC was immediate and abundant. Chicken-ladened billboards abound. And the birthplace of Col. Harlan Sanders is listed as an “attraction” on the info sign at...